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“CMS used to be a lot more accommodating and flexible with states as they tried to achieve the same goals,” said Philo Hall, an attorney at Epstein Becker & Green and former associate director for health on the White House Domestic Policy Council. “But in these final two years of the Obama administration, they have a more aggressive leadership team.”